Survival House & Base Schematics

A survival house has to do more than look good: it needs room for storage, crafting and smelting, beds, and somewhere safe to stand at night. The builds in this collection are sized and styled for survival worlds, from rustic wooden houses to cliffside and desert homes, and most use blocks you can gather without a large stockpile.

The materials list is the most useful thing to check. It shows every block the house needs, so you can see before you start whether it fits where you are in your world. The dimensions tell you how much flat ground to clear, and the 3D preview shows the layout of rooms, doors and windows.

Remember that hostile mobs spawn wherever the block light level is 0, so light up the inside of the house and the ground around it once it is built. On Hard difficulty zombies can break wooden doors, so many players switch to iron doors or raise the door frame.